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Top 16 Rust HTTP Client Projects
- Project mention: Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-19
Hurl has been great for testing in my RAD templating web server project. Like dm03514 says, 'The hurl-based tests really help to enforce the "client" perspective.' It's packaged for 3 application environments (x2 archs, x3 oses) and with Hurl its easy to ensure the tests pass at the client level in all three environments.
It would be nice to have fancy-regex; today I tried to write a regex to match a case like this ~ ~ but the regex crate (and thus hurl asserts) can't do backreferences so I guess I'll just live without checking that these two substrings match.
I wish there was some way to test streamed updates / SSE. Basically, open a connection and wait, then run some other http requests, then assert the accumulated stream from the original connection. https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/discussions/2636
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Gotham is a flexible web framework built for stable Rust that promotes “stability, safety, security, and speed.” It provides async support with the help of Tokio and hyper out of the box.
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One of the reasons for me personally is a rich selection of packages from crates.io. For example if you are writing a server in Rust, and use something like https://crates.io/crates/reqwest for http requests, then you can reuse it in your mobile app. Also there's serde. You don't need to write the schema for your data if you have Rust on both server and client. Just make a shared crate and use serde to encode/decode the data. It really saves a lot of time if you don't have to use swagger or similar tools. And there's a documentation out of the box with `cargo doc`
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> As an example, I still do not understand why simple HTTP crates require more than 50 to 70 dependencies to execute a simple GET call...
Looking at ureq [0], for example, its direct non-build/non-dev dependencies are (counting duplicates):
- base64
- flate2 (4 transitive dependencies)
- log
- percent-encoding
- rustls (26 transitive dependencies)
- rustls-pki-types (1 transitive dependency)
- ureq-proto (7 transitive dependencies)
- utf-8
- webpki-roots (2 transitive dependencies)
The vast majority of the raw dependency count comes from Rustls and related crates, and I'd imagine reimplementing a TLS stack would be somewhat out of scope for an HTTP crate. I'm not sure there's much room for substantial reductions in dependency count otherwise.
[0]: https://github.com/algesten/ureq
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wasmedge_hyper_demo
Lightweight HTTP servers based on hyper / warp frameworks in the WasmEdge Runtime.
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- Project mention: A Deep Dive into `ararog/uget`: The Modern Command-Line HTTP Client | dev.to | 2025-11-28
This post focuses specifically on the project found at https://github.com/ararog/uget, a minimalist command-line HTTP utility.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source HTTP Client projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | 18,270 |
| 2 | hyper | 15,777 |
| 3 | reqwest | 11,219 |
| 4 | ht | 7,392 |
| 5 | ureq | 2,037 |
| 6 | rnet | 1,108 |
| 7 | curl-rust | 1,093 |
| 8 | goose | 915 |
| 9 | slumber | 815 |
| 10 | isahc | 758 |
| 11 | zaku | 249 |
| 12 | dot-http | 164 |
| 13 | wasmedge_hyper_demo | 89 |
| 14 | curl-rs | 2 |
| 15 | github-stats | 1 |
| 16 | uget | 1 |
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